We’re looking for people to join the Access family, who share our passion for believing in better, and who will help us continue to grow.   Love Work. Love Life. Be You. - is central to our success and how we give our customers the freedom to do more of what's important to them.     What does Access offer you?  We offer a flexible, hybrid working environment where you can balance work and life while maintaining a strong office team-based culture. We deliver on what we say, taking the development of our people seriously. We’ll work with you to progress your success plan and provide opportunities to accelerate your career.  You will start with 25 days annual leave that increases with your seniority in the company, a private healthcare and life insurance. We pride ourselves on being an organisation that gives back so you’ll also have one charity day allocated to support a cause that matters to you. There are plenty of other perks. Apply to find out more. Position Summary: We are looking for an Engineering Team Lead to work on components and services within our Front of House Software Company serving Hospitality Customers in all aspects of Guest and Customer Experience. This is a challenging role in an exciting fast paced company with lots of opportunity to work on a variety of interesting projects. We use some of the latest tech to deliver fast paced enhancements to our ever-growing customer base of well-known international brands. Our products operate at scale with millions of guest experiences per day. You'll be working with our experienced team of technologists to help evolve and develop our technology roadmap and then acting as a key member in orchestrating its delivery. Leading one of our development squads, you will have a big impact on our product through building new services and interfaces, and maintaining existing ones, and helping to drive the evolution of our Front of House products. You will lead the team, taking ownership of people, project and technical aspects of delivery. The ideal candidate will be working within a similar position currently and have sound, demonstrable commercial experience of working on modern cloud product. Day-to-day, you will: • Contribute to the strategic development of the Tonic and Soda through your leadership of an Agile team, whilst working collaboratively with your peers to ensure a ‘joined up approach’ is consistently taken. • Lead by hands-on example, driving both technical excellence and high individual/team performance throughout the development process. • Provide technical leadership, guidance and direction to the team, whilst ultimately taking accountability for their deliverables. • Ensure software is designed and built to a high standard, according to the team’s Definition of Done. Inspect and adapt that Definition of Done with your team. • Take responsibility for assessing the risk of development tasks, taking into account technical and commercial factors, and make risk-based recommendations and decisions. • Help ensure all engineers within the team understand the scope, risk and complexity of changes by challenging and providing feedback to the stories and acceptance criteria. • Champion technical debt and its priority within the roadmap. Work with product representatives to ensure technical requirements are well understood and expressed in business value terms. • Design and develop software solutions to agreed requirements using front-end and back-end technologies. • Adhere and contribute to department coding standards and suggest improvements to them. • Code review other engineers work, providing constructive feedback, advising on best practice & coding standards. • Drive the development of processes and improvements. • Ensure the team creates the appropriate technical documentation where required, both for internal and external consumption. • Report to Engineering Manager on progress and areas of risk, including metrics where requested. • Provide motivational leadership, mentoring and coaching to the team, including on best practice and approaches, and the continuous improvement of these. • Manage career and skills development, performance, holidays and workloads of your team. • Work in accordance with the company’s policies and procedures. • You will have access to cutting edge AI tools to augment workflows and the attainment of outcomes, as such you will have the opportunity to drive innovation at pace and ensure your team maximise their potential through use of AI Your skills and experiences might also include: Technology & Tools: • HTML, CSS, JavaScript/TypeScript • CSS pre-processors (Sass, Less, etc) • PHP / Java / .NET / .NET Core & ASP.NET • Visual Studio & VS Code • Browser DevTools • SQL or NoSQL-based database engines • Automated Build (CI) and Deployments : Azure DevOps • Git-based Source Control • Azure DevOps boards Desirable Experience: • Experience working in a SaaS software business • Experience creating public APIs for consumption by 3rd parties • Azure PaaS services (e.g. App Service, CosmosDB, Service Bus, Kubernetes) • AWS PaaS (e.g. ECS, Lambda, SNS, SQS) • Accessibility requirements • Test automation both frontend and integration layer • Docker What are we all about?  The Access Group is one of the largest UK-headquartered providers of business management software to small and mid-sized organisations in the UK, Ireland, USA and Asia Pacific. It helps more than 100,000 customers across commercial and non-profit sectors become more productive and efficient. Our products and solutions go beyond providing technology, we connect the right people with the right data, at the right time, through Access Workspace.   At Access, we are committed to creating a welcoming and inclusive environment where everyone can thrive. If you're excited about this role, (even if your previous experience doesn't align perfectly), you might just be the perfect fit for us! We wholeheartedly believe in equality for all and the transformative power of diversity. Why not join our vibrant team where you can love what you do, love how you live, and most importantly, be authentically you? Let's make a difference together. Love Work. Love Life. Be You.